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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-4-7
pubmed:abstractText
Potato lectin (Solanum tuberosum agglutinin, STA), purified by affinity chromatography on tri-N-acetylchitotriose-Sepharose 6B, has Mr approximately 100,000, as estimated by gel filtration on Sephadex G-150 and is an aggregating system with a monomer Mr = 54,000, as estimated by sedimentation equilibrium analysis. Equilibrium dialysis showed that STA (dimer) has two binding sites for a specific sugar per molecule. STA has a high content of sugar, most of which is L-arabinose, and is rich in Hyp and Cys. On interaction with specific sugars, STA induced a UV difference spectrum having positive peaks at 292 and 285 nm characteristic of tryptophyl residues. The association constants with chitin oligosaccharides, determined from the intensities of the difference spectra at various concentrations of sugars, increased with increasing chain length of the sugar. Association constants obtained by frontal affinity chromatography of chitin oligosaccharides with STA-Sepharose were in good agreement with those obtained by difference spectra, whereas the association constants obtained by frontal affinity chromatography of STA with di- and tri-N-acetylchitotriose-Sepharose were much higher, presumably owing to the effect of multivalency of ligands. The CD spectra of STA in the far UV region indicate the presence of 40% of beta- and 60% of unordered form, and no alpha-helix conformation, which supports the structure suggested by the amino acid composition and the high content of sugar.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
258
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2886-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
Purification and characterization of potato lectin.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.